Well here it is... Our progress so far.

Month Unique visitors Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth
Jan 2006 12031 23599 284926 1911708 21.23 GB
Feb 2006 9615 19746 217690 1524059 12.36 GB
Mar 2006 6933 15724 175007 1285642 11.83 GB
Apr 2006 8136 15966 161582 1255416 7.63 GB


Jan. we were still in the 7club boom. Feb people started to drop off bc advertising stopped while we waited on the forum to "settle" and get some policies in place. March we declared the people still here "regulars" and April I began moderate advertising again. Also, people started adding links to personal sites and other forums which has helped substantially with new registrations and SEP.

I think some credit is due to Zero for his efforts with youtube. Additionally, all of the others with big TFL sigs on other forums are a great help too (SNTP & co.). And Manntis for his links on his pages. I think 91lx has by far exceeded everyone for his gallery use which is great news bc they're watermarked with Queen's TFL image :)

March Search referrals:
- Google 407 407
- Google (Images) 352 510
- Yahoo 294 339

April Search referrals:
Yahoo 1045 1047
- Google (Images) 803 838
- Google 298 298

Big jump in yahoo and google images but a drop on google (probably due to the ip sharing with CFhoods.net which went WAY up) This probably means I need to enable the mod_rewrite for the gallery images again.

This is perhaps the most interesting stat...
The phrase "camel toe" accounted for 665 Searches which is 48.2% of all searches resulting in TFL. I guess we should be proud....


The domains are hogging system resources and although I don't think it is fair to move them yet, I don't think the current host cares enough about their customers to fix the daily crashes and excessive downtime due to the growth. Basically, with the growth of TFL and carbonfiberhoods.net (the two primary domains on this server) I'm going to HAVE to go dedicated and sell webspace on the server to help pay for the additional cost which is three to four times the current aggregate cost.

This will most likely happen in the next 2 weeks and downtime should be minimal but I do suspect you'll notice a great deal of bugs/glitches while I implement new features for donating members.

Thanks for all the work and let me know your thoughts, questions and suggestions in this thread.

dont worry. im spreading the TFL and so is Fcdrifter.

just remember that while big banners and obnoxious methods work great short term those methods are crap in the long run and require a lot more work than long-term promotion. The best thing to do is get descriptive links on a lot of websites such as:

The forum for people who like boobs (http://www.theforumlounge.com)
or
The forum for people who like camel toes (http://www.theforumlounge.com)
or
The forum for people who like to say what they want (http://www.theforumlounge.com)

Search engines pick those up a lot better than images

How about you start a thread in which we all post pictures of our favorite penis and then I'll make sure it gets listed in the search engines so we can balance it out.

nah it's the perfect plan. It is bound to get chicks here!

lol

So I'm thinking about creating a new Xbox live account and having it be 'theforumlounge.com'.

So what do you think Mr. Osborne?

i told you before man... commercialize!

or spam...

... get chicks here!
hey i'm all for that!!

michael - remember when your wife posted? :)

vroom - mine is theforumlounge.com on XLINK

yeah, so

I'm being serious with this....

What about window-clings that say "your car was pwned by theforumlounge.com"...

just stick them on peoples cars randomly... i guarantee 100% of the people would come to see who the fuck put it on their car and why.

muahahah i shall spread it the end of this week!.

What happened to the two chicks that were here?


Kind of sad that a long dead thread is what brings people here.

I thought about taking down all the crappy images in my gallery, which is a majority of them (about 95-100%)... unless it helps with hits or something, in which case I wont even mess with it.

Do whatever you want with it. If you need more space in your gallery you can delete old stuff. I'm going to make the galleries more forum friendly next week. Also, the window cling is a good idea but I think theyre pretty expensive. Flyers would work better. I might get some printed for hot import gay world nights.

What happened to the two chicks that were here?


Kind of sad that a long dead thread is what brings people here.
for some reason... chicks dont like us.. same with bcool.

there were a lot of girls here at one point but they said there were too many assholes

How about you start a thread in which we all post pictures of our favorite penis and then I'll make sure it gets listed in the search engines so we can balance it out.


I could donate a picture of my dick to bring more women here. But I bet there are more fags searching dick than women.

well... we shall spread this weekend. everyone work together and spread this shizzel on 7club or something.